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Ace Lee, Jin Bai, Jill Dunlap, Paloma Lozano, Kiara Hendrix-Glover, Reagan Stevenson, Abby Evans, Geraldine Fonseca
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Duncan Hon, Alex Branka
Ace Lee, Njeri Njoroge, Margarita Mejia
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A POST-SHOW TALK
Sunday, April 16th, 2:00PM
Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage
Post Show Topics: The Great Migration, Resilience and Change
Discussion Facilitator: Richard Corley, Visiting Lecturer, School of Theatre and Music
Panelists: Cynthia Blair, Associate Professor
Cynthia Blair is a professor of Black Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of UIC’s African American Cultural Center. Her research focuses on race and sexuality in the U.S., and explores the intersection of Black urban history, Black women’s history, and popular culture. Her book, I’ve Got to Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago, explores African American women’s sex work in Chicago, expanding our understanding of black women’s labor, the Great Migration, the emergence of modern sexuality, and the criminalization of Black women’s sexuality in the early twentieth-century. She is currently writing a biography of the comedian Jackie “Moms” Mabley.
Ericka Ratcli , School of Theatre and Music, Director
Baltimore bred Ericka Ratcli is Artistic Director of Congo Square Theatre Company where she works to amplify the mission of celebrating the complexities of Black life and culture on stage. Most recently Ericka directed WHITE with De nition Theatre and was co-director on the Chicago premiere of What To Send Up When It Goes Down at Congo Square. She has worked regionally and locally with Alliance Theater, Steppenwolf, Northlight, Victory Gardens, Chicago Shakespeare, Collaboraction, House Theater of Chicago, Mixed Blood, Milwaukee Rep, Kansas City Rep, CENTERSTAGE, Pittsburgh Playwrights and Second City to name a few. She is a recipient of the Chicago 3Arts Make A Wave Award, 2017. Ericka is also an artistic associate with Lookingglass Theater.
